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OET (OET-LV) They_answered and said to_him:
The father of_us is Abraʼam.
The Yaʸsous is_saying to_them:
If you_all_are children of_ the _Abraʼam, you_all_were_doing the works of_ the _Abraʼam.
OET (OET-RV) But they retorted, “Abraham is our father.”[fn]
¶ And Yeshua responded, “Well, if you really were descendants of Abraham, you’d behave more like him.
8:39 father meaning ancestor. (Abraham lived some 2,000 years before the time of these events.)
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
ὁ πατὴρ
the father
Here the people use father to refer to their ancestor. If this might confuse your readers, you could express the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “Our forefather”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / pastforfuture
λέγει
/is/_saying
Here John uses the present tense in past narration in order to call attention to a development in the story.
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
τέκνα τοῦ Ἀβραάμ
children ¬the ˱of˲_Abraham
Here Jesus uses children to mean “descendants.” If this might confuse your readers, you could express the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “descendants of Abraham”
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / possession
τὰ ἔργα τοῦ Ἀβραὰμ
the works ¬the ˱of˲_Abraham
Jesus is using of to describe works that were done by Abraham. If this is not clear in your language, you could use a different expression. Alternate translation: “the works done by Abraham”
8:12-59 The debate about whether or not Jesus is the Messiah continues from 7:52. Jesus was still at the Festival of Shelters in Jerusalem. During the festival, the conflicts Jesus had endured in ch 7 continued and intensified.
OET (OET-LV) They_answered and said to_him:
The father of_us is Abraʼam.
The Yaʸsous is_saying to_them:
If you_all_are children of_ the _Abraʼam, you_all_were_doing the works of_ the _Abraʼam.
OET (OET-RV) But they retorted, “Abraham is our father.”[fn]
¶ And Yeshua responded, “Well, if you really were descendants of Abraham, you’d behave more like him.
8:39 father meaning ancestor. (Abraham lived some 2,000 years before the time of these events.)
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The SR Greek text, lemmas, morphology, and VLT gloss are all thanks to the SR-GNT.